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UbiSoft has released the extended version of their E3 2012 walkthrough of Splinter Cell: Blacklist at GamesCom 2012, and it includes a controversial torture scene by protagonist Sam Fisher.

This has caused a negative reaction from more than one developer, including Gears of War: Judgment co-writer Tom Bissell, who posted in his blog"a blithe, shrugging presentation of the very definition of human evil, all in the name of 'entertainment.'"

"We've arrived in a strange emotional clime when our popular entertainment frequently depicts torture as briskly effective rather than literally the worst thing one human being can do to another - yea verily, worse even than killing."

"I spent a couple days feeling ashamed of being a gamer, of playing or liking military games, of being interested in any of this disgusting bullshit at all."

This follows a recent report by a US interrogator who repeated what most experienced veterans in his field have insisted: torture doesn't work, and no torture was used in finding Osama bin Laden.

So the question is: do fantasies of successful Jack Bauer-styled torture interrogation belong in entertainment?